denis bider

Ka-Ching

The ineffectiveness of economic stimulus

The falsity of formally proven software

Thanksgiving prayer

Somali pirates capture huge oil tanker

Skilled, unskilled, unaware

The clever rebooting by Windows Update

"The case for forward-looking protectionism"

They can't even cut the power right in St. Kitts

A question for Ron Paul (on Freakonomics)

The Bomb prevented a yet greater tragedy

The economics of religion

The Pope doesn't want you to be able to sell your kidney

A single, controlling majority shareholder in finance

The state of Cuba

Democracy may be beneficial economically after all

Pensions and fertility

The demerits of DST

The monkeys came to power

Iceland's mistake

Ben and Ryan translate rap

Ideological reporting in Slovenia

Harlem voters make an educated choice

Subprime mortgage vs. loan sharks

Detroit houses for sale: prices from $9,000

South Africa sees the light on HIV

Too big to exist #2

James Bond at work

Feldstein's loan proposal: Similarities to my call for a decentralized money supply

Another year, more St. Kitts power outages

A decentralized money supply: Solving the scarcity of money

Cochrane on Why the bailout would be a disaster

The harm of banks: Economic booms and busts

Banks and libertarianism

Monetary supply: The role of borrowing in economic growth

Without banks: A proposal for a prosperous and stable economy

The Silver Rule

Qualifications of writers at The Economist

The cost of supporting the hard-core homeless

Too big to exist

Forest fires and risky interdependencies

American income growth over past 25 years

Debt: let the cataclysm come

Saudi Arabian judge okays killing satellite broadcasters

The ridiculous plot of Stargate Atlantis

Evidence-Based Medicine

Google strikes blow to Microsoft with new browser

Planned public transportation in Santiago

Condemning Russia: Western Hypocrisy

US bubbles and the global savings glut

The coming insignificance of the West

We have enough oil: The Fischer-Tropsch process

Russia strutting the stage

Forget about cholesterol

John Otto

"Water scarcity"

The People's Romance

To die for one's country

What's wrong with the U.S. health care system?

The philosophy that you, too, should follow

Student solves plastic bag 'crisis' in spare time

Maggot party

On Bill Gates's calls for "system innovation"

Manufactured popularity of presidential candidates

The subprime mortgage collapse for dummies

IQ and Global Inequality

What's wrong with this picture?

The doghouse: Seattle Women's Clinic

Nonexistent internet "sexual predator" threat

Learning a subject by catching the lie

Kosovo and thoughts on self-determination

Women overestimate inflation more than men

Poverty: it is an attitude

Wealth, income, consumption, or happiness?

Awful, awful progress

Low-end jobs in St. Kitts vs. Europe

The problem with reducing inequality

Fascist traffic fines in Finland

The law of unintended consequences

France to track "happines" instead of economic progress

Iceland reduces taxes to collect more

Illegality is what makes prostitution harmful

Programming needs Real Men

Taxation in pictures: Why FairTax makes sense

The world's cheapest car: growth in purchasing power

Big government as the law of the strongest

Private law in early Iceland

Art = entertainment

My predictions for the U.S. presidential election 2008

Doofuses against Ron Paul

Non-conformity and groups

The ethics of patent trolling

The free market at work: outsourcing surgery

Totally not like a corrupt, tyrannical empire

The truth about giving

What men are really looking for

Victims on Trial: The Everyday Business of Courts

The "liberal" (= socialist) worldview

The doghouse: Opera files antitrust complaint against Microsoft

Amazon strikes with low prices; the French strike back!